Canon - C200 - Quick Start Guide for Recording
- Susanne Kraft
Plug in the DC Power if you want to not use Batteries |
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Turn the Camera On |
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Put the SDHC cards in the slots. One or two cards. |
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You have to close the doors of the card slots or else the camera won't recognize the cards |
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Click the Menu Button Also use the the joystick to navigate the menus |
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Navigate to the "wrench" icon and choose Reset Resetting the menus gets the camera back to a default state so you know everything is reset to a starting point |
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Choose System Setup >Reset >All Settings |
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OK |
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Set the Date and Time |
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Navigate to the Media icon page 1 Set the System Frequency to 59.94 |
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Navigate to the Media icon page 1 Set the System Frequency to 59.94 |
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Same menu page 2 set the Frame Rate to 23.98 |
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Next format the SDHC cards Same Media Menu Page 1 Choose Initialize Media |
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Choose which card to format |
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Choose Complete formatting |
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Click OK to confirm |
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Same media page choose the Main Recording Format as MP4 |
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Same media page choose the Main Recording Format as MP4 |
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Media Menu Page 2 choose Resolution as UHD 3840 x 2160 YCC420 8bit |
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Go to Media Menu Page 3 and Choose to turn on Relay Recording this will enable the recording to span the two SD cards if you have two loaded |
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Navigate over to the Image menu and choose to turn on Canon Log 3 if you want to record in Log Or BT709 if you don't want that log setting |
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Auto Focus On or Off Turn ON if you want to use the Face Detection. That is useful to make sure you keep faces in focus. |
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Auto Focus ON Go to the Camera Menu Page 5 Face Detection Turn it ON |
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Face Auto Focus choose Face Priority |
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Back One page on page 4 on the Camera Menu |
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Choose AF Frame Size Large |
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To change Brightness ISO/Gain Click on the ISO/Gain on the side of the camera wait till you see the red scale on the display |
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Then use the Joystick on the LED display and move it up and down to adjust the level of light coming into the camera |
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You can also use the Joystick on the back of the camera and move it up and down to adjust the brightness level |
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Audio Settings on the side of the camera you can plug in XLR cables for external 2 Audio inputs Input 1 set on Analog Choose Mic +48 for a microphone that needs phantom power If a Mic has a power source like a battery choose Mic Mixer Board input would be Line Level |
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Input 2 Audio Settings on the side of the camera you can plug in XLR cables for external microphone inputs Input 1 set on Analog Choose Mic +48 for a microphone that needs phantom power If a Mic has a power source like a battery choose Mic Mixer Board input would be Line Level |
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Then click Menu again and look at the "Audio" page Joystick 3 tabs over on Page 1 Select Ch1/Ch2 Input here Good advice is to set channels 3/4 to the on camera microphone Manaural Mic |
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Good advice is to set channels 3/4 to the on camera microphone Manaural Mic |
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Finally Record Button press to record and to stop recording |
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If you want to look at the recorded data on the card Switch the Power button to Media |
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Here you will get Thumbnails of all the media Use the Joystick to toggle through the clips and press selected clip to play the clip |
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